Letters to the Editor
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Peg's World
"He hasn't made himself wealthy by seeing the world through a romantic mist."--Peggy Noonan
She wrote that about Mitt Romney. Doesn't 'seeing the world through a romantic mist' describe Peggy Noonan?
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farnsworth.
Quick. You drag the fire hose over to art's wood shop.
We need him to Not be burnt all up to be a crispy critter.
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Bush helping at a house fire? LMAO!
Come ON Peggy, you're trying to project a common-man he-man response onto teh former cheerleader who, told that the United States was under attack, sat and pouted, holding a children's book as it letting go of it would totally cut him loose from anything. A year or two ago a reporter looked up some of the kids who were in that classroom and asked them what they thought of Mr. Average Brush-Clearing Guy. Their answers included such insights as "I thought he was going to cry" and "I thouight he had to go to the bathroom."
I've got news for ya, Peggy: Bush HAD his chance to help out at a disaster involving a burning building...in fact, several very large burning buildings. He did not have a clue what to do next, other than be ushered away to The Hole at Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska.
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Darkness at Noonan...
They really know how to work us, don't they? On one hand, we get clueless airheads like Peggy Noonan turning the Presidential campaign into an old Prell commercial. On the other hand, we get this:
"WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A recent decline in U.S. news coverage from Iraq coincides with improved public opinion about the war just as the 2008 presidential campaign heads to an early showdown, a study released on Wednesday said.
"The study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism said the volume of coverage from Iraq fell from 8 percent of all news stories in the first six months of 2007 to 5 percent between June and October due mainly to a decline in news accounts of daily attacks.
"The falloff coincided with a 14 percentage point climb -- from 34 to 48 percent -- in the number of Americans who believe the U.S. military effort in Iraq is going either fairly or very well, according to Pew."
At some point, we gotta start wondering whether a "big fix" is in - more than just the Beltway detritus covering for one another. Just how interconnected is government and our "fourth estate"? Do they serve the same paymaster? Do they nibble off each other's brunch plates? Just how far off are all those "black helicopter" hillbillies and their Lovecraftian conspiracy theories?
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Meow
Peggy was born in 1950. That makes her about 57? Me thinks Peggy is just jealous. Likely, Edwards has hair follicles more active than her own. Maybe if someone would introduce Peggy to hair extensions she could move past this neurosis.
And, farnsworth. Thanks a bunch! I'm now scrubbing coffee off my monitor. I held it through Bebop's hair on fire, but lost it with the fire hose.
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@mredge
Your mother may very well have used that term but here is how
Merriam Webster defines it as:
poof
2 entries found.
poof[1,interjection]poof[2,noun]
Main Entry: 1poof
Pronunciation: ˈpüf, ˈpu̇f
Function: interjection
Date: 1824
—used to express disdain or dismissal or to suggest instantaneous occurrence
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural poofs also pooves
Etymology: perhaps alteration of 2puff
Date: circa 1860
British usually disparaging : a male homosexual
My aunt was a hairdresser all her life. When she was "lifting hair", she was "teasing" it. I'm not saying that the term is never used in this manner (regional slang has lots of unique and frequently wonderful terms), only that I seriously doubt that was Noonan's intent in this article.
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I should go. The Update. ...Bush is normal? "normal"...
Then: normal people are too flighty.
They are too scared to gaze into a mirror to ask.."What's normal" [?]
"Who's inside the soft skin flesh,
blood, marrow, and skeletal frame."
Remember: the back-side of the Looking Glass is pitch-black to allow honest and clear reflection...
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I'll be damned
MAV said exactly what I was going to say, which just sort of reinforces the point that all of this should be as obvious as is the sun if you're on top of a 1,000 foot tower in the middle of the desert and there are no clouds and you are standing under a giant magnifying glass.
But this being our modern punditry, they are still staring around asking where this "sun" thing is everyone is talking about. I don't see it, they say, I still feel the cool relaxing breeze of Ronald Reagan's shading hair drifting over us all, why can't he come back to hold us and make us happy again?
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She's implying Edwards is a "Poofter"
That's the British derogatory slang for a Gay man.
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Long as God can grow it
An example of poofed hair on a man.
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/66/67/68dff0cdd7a002985d9c6110.L.jpg
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Glenn
I see you beat me to the dictionary. I should have realized that would happen. Sorry for the echo, I should have read all the comments first.
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Thanks, El Cid, I'm just amazed nobody else said it yet....
Although I did get a chortle out of another poster's descriving Bush trying to "help" at a fire.
The whole macho-man image of Bush is as phony as that of the Village People. Here's a guy who, asked by reporters about his relationship with "Kenny Boy" Lay, responded by running out of the room. And how can we forget that time in China when he tried the same he-man answer of running away, but was stymied by a locked door!
I spent a few years in the news racket and learned that on political stories at least, "conventional wisom" by editors overrules what reporters out on their beats see - they're told to go out and get this story, and if they come back and say "That's not what's happening, it's all different!" they're told they are showing "a bad attitude." So I can see some reporter coming back to a newsroom after realizing that Bush shows himself to be an Ivy League wanker, and being told by the cloistered editors "No, he's a real authentic he-man! Write it that way!"
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-- GlennGreenwald
"You want me to just start churning out analysis just for the sake of it?"
Hell no. I think I can speak for thousands, millions of readers who want you to continue to write about things you know something about rather than pontificating on things which you really aren't up to snuff. If I want to read or watch someone say things about issues they don't know anything about, I'll tune in to Billo or The Odious Mr. Limbaugh.
Frankly, I think I'd rather see another article about FISA for no reason other than to keep that issue on the front burner.
P.S. I used to have hair but one morning I woke up and 'Poof' it was gone. So am I a poofer?